BFP Podcast

Empire, Power & People with Andrew Gavin Marshall- Episode 118

Israel-Palestine 101

This episode provides some background and context to the most recent four-week slaughter of Palestinians by the United States and Israel, including a brief history of the occupation, non-violent and violent resistance to the occupation, the emergence of Hamas, the siege of Gaza, the so-called “peace process” and the Intifadas, up until the formation of a Hamas-Fatah unity government in June of 2014, and the war waged by Israel in response to it.
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De-Manufacturing Consent- The Snowden-ISIS Hoax

Guillermo Jimenez Presents Tom Secker
On this edition of De-Manufacturing Consent: Guillermo is joined by Tom Secker, host of the ClandesTime podcast and author of the book Secret, Spies, and 7/7.
We discuss the “Snowden-ISIS hoax,” the false “news” story that has been circulating through the internet over the past few weeks that claims former NSA contractor Edward Snowden released documents proving the CIA/MI6/Mossad are running the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and its leader Al-Badhdadi.

De-Manufacturing Consent- The U.S. Still Tortures & You Should Still Care

Guillermo Jimenez Presents Rebecca Gordon
On this edition of De-Manufacturing Consent: Guillermo is joined by Rebecca Gordon, a philosophy teacher at the University of San Francisco and author of the book Mainstreaming Torture: Ethical Approaches in the Post-9/11 United States. Gordon explains why institutionalized torture remains relevant in the “post-Bush era” of the United States and how the framework to carry out torture has been sustained during the Obama administration.